Help to decipher Irish County name please

[MonicaL]

Just adding link to Scottish post www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,646689.msg4934487/boardseen.html#new

Family look to be Roman Catholic which will make it trickier re records pre start of official registration, in Ireland as elsewhere

Michael's parents look to be James Mellon (with all its spellings) and mother Hannah Toland. Have now found Michael' RC birth/baptims.

Doesn't help with where James and Hannah were from but at least confirmation of Michael's mother maiden name and his birth details.

Monica

[Rosinish]

Hello,

ignore the marriage  wrong couple.

It was just that the 1851 had older children and a young Hannah, I thought she may be the second wife.

heywood

I did notice the age thing. She was 21 and her eldest son 9? Think it was a case of guessing to be honest. In 1861 she's 34. I must take after her, looking young for my age 

A. M.

[heywood]

Have you looked at this birth for mother's name:


Ann Mellon  June 1850   Manchester  volume 20 page 739

[Rosinish]

Just adding link to Scottish post www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,646689.msg4934487/boardseen.html#new

Family look to be Roman Catholic which will make it trickier re records pre start of official registration, in Ireland as elsewhere

Michael's parents look to be James Mellon (with all its spellings) and mother Hannah Toland. Have now found Michael' RC birth/baptims.

Doesn't help with where James and Hannah were from but at least confirmation of Michael's mother maiden name and his birth details.

Monica

Blimey Monica,

Wow and I know before I even dig any further you are so right - Here's your MEDAL!!!! Michael and Annie had a son Albert Tolland & I had always wondered where Tolland originated. You're a genuis & thanks. I'm over the moon & can't wait to inform my aunt who's still alive in her 70's.

Regards,

Anne Marie.

[murney]

There is a marriage for James Melon and Hannah Toland in Donegal in 1845 on www.rootsireland.ie.  No sign of children on this website so they may have emigrated soon after their marriage.  This is a pay per view website but I can have a look for the marriage for you if you like in the Dublin National library. 

[heywood]

http://donegal.rootsireland.ie/  has a marriage for James Melon and Hannah Toland. It is a pay site but the free index shows it for 1845.

Sorry - didn't notice your post murney.

[MonicaL]

We are running along on two posts which gets confusing 

Just adding link to the deciphering post thread for background www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,646780.0.html

Murney, that is a great potential find! Given the year, I am thinking that Hannah Toland was a second wife of James Mellon, specially looking at the ages of James and Hannah in the 1851 census in Lancashire linked above. If the marriage you found is 1847, the Michael b in Glasgow in 1848 likely the first child from this marriage. Dates and years that we have seen so far would all look to more or  less fit with that.

Monica

Added: Getting confused  Marriage being cited was in 1845.

[Treetotal]

A tree on A*****y has a James Mellon marrying Hannah McKeon
Carol

[Rosinish]

Thanks treetotal,

Will check that out too as I'm needing fed and on roots.ie just now.
Only today did I discover Michael had older brother's. The name on 1851 was "Mellow". I only knew he had 2 younger sister's so I could have got the key to pandora's box now 
Regards,

Anne Marie.